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Dimension
150 Visual Display for U.C.L.A. Driving SimulatorBy S. F. Hulbert and C. K. Wojcik
The U.C.L.A. Driving Simulator has been developed as a research tool
in the field of highway safety. This simulator is a projection room
in which an automobile is driven on steel rollers of a standard
chassis dynamometer while the driver views the road scene that is
projected onto a curved screen 8.5 ft in radius. The driver also
views the road scene behind him by looking through the rear-view
mirror at a motion picture projected on a screen placed beyond the
rear window of the vehicle. The field of vision of the front view is
150 deg. The projection technique used is a special type of motion
picture presentation called Dimension 150

General Building
Specifications for the Dimension-150 All-Purpose Theatre
The concept of the
"all-purpose-theatre" for Dimension 150 exhibition, and the
exhibition of all other existing screen processes has been studied by D-150,
Inc for several years. The "all-
purpose-theatre" should be unique in appearance, functional in design, and economical in construction,
operation and maintenance.

Richard
Vetter Passed AwayBy Robert WeisgerberWith all the trials and tribulations that Dick went through over the
years in Hollywood
he always believed
firmly in the 70mm
format and the value
it brought to
feature films,
yesterday, today and
tomorrow. He was
extremely
knowledgeable and
was willing to share
it all, but most
importantly a true
gentleman. We will
all miss him!

RICHARD VETTER IN CONVERSATION, 2006

Carl
Williams Passed
AwayThe Williams
Family
It was at UCLA that
he and fellow
faculty member, Dr.
Richard Vetter,
invented a
wide-screen
photographic and
presentation system
called
Dimension-150.
Introduced in 1966,
the system was soon
being installed in
movie theaters
around the world and
for a time, the
D-150 process was
one of Cinerama's
chief rivals

The
Passing of Joe KellyBy Leimeter, Vetter, Weisgerber &
WilliamsJoe Kelly was one of the truly good guys in the world. He was my unofficial
technical guru during the time when Todd-AO was still affiliated with the
United Artists Theatre Corporation.

Cinerama and Todd-AO at the Syossettby Joe Kelley
The screen frame had an adjustable curvature to accommodate the Todd AO
specified deep chord depth while permitting 35mm Flat and Scope wide
screen formats to form lesser chord depths.

D-150, Coliseum, LondonBy Harry Rigby
I have just come across these two photos I took at the Coliseum in
London in the 1960s when they were playing "The Bible – In The
Beginning". It shows the D150 lens nicely.

"The Bible...in
the beginning"By Wolfram
Hannemann
The movie
"The Bible" was achieved over a period of five years, three of which were needed for pre-production. It was the brainchild of Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis. He had the idea of making a movie covering the first 22 chapters of the book of books when doing some research while working on
"Barabbas"

The Photography of "Patton"By George J. MitchelThe sharpness and resolution of the D-150 lenses is amply demonstrated
in the prologue. There are screen-filling close-ups of Patton's pistols, his
decorations, his West Point ring. The clarity of detail, despite the
magnification, is amazing.

"Harmony: Nature and Man"
Washington State Film for EXPO 70 in Dimension 150"Harmony: Nature and Man" is one of the most
comprehensive documentaries on a U.S. state ever produced, to be the major
attraction of the Washington State Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka Worlds Fair in
Japan. The film will be photographed and exhibited in the 70mm Dimension 150
process, the only
current motion
picture process of
both a photographic
and an exhibition
system

"CineSpace 70"
Credits"
By
Lee Parker & Richard VetterDemonstration Film in four major parts. Purpose of the
demonstration film is to show the merits of filming with updated 65mm
Todd-AO cameras. Following examples are included: zoom, steadicam, low
light, high speed, slow motion, time lapse, CU's to infinity, aerial, under
water, exterior, people, nature, daytime, nighttime, extreme wide angle to
telephoto etc.

The
D-150 Curvulon Lens
By Richard VetterThe D-150 Super Curvulon lens attachment was a basic design that I
conceived and submitted to Kollmorgen Corp. in 1964 and that
company was commissioned by D-150 to perform the final
design and fabricate prototypes.

Come
Back D-150 ....All Is Forgiven
By Grant LobbanKnown simply as D-150, it was the invention of two members of
the University of California, Dr Richard Vetter, and Carl W.
Williams. The system was a scaled-up version of an earlier
development of theirs for a driving simulator.

The 70mm
Promotion Tour 1994By
Thomas HauerslevDan Leimeter had
arranged for us to
see reel one of
"Oklahoma!", "The
Miracle of Todd-AO"
and the Cinespace 70
demonstration film at
Todd-AO Stage A. Also
present at the
screening were Dr
Richard Vetter, and
assistant Mr Darryl
Gray of Todd-AO's
camera division.
Todd-AO/Glen Glenn
Studios is still
very active in the
camera business and
has a wide variety
of 65mm cameras
ready for hire.